MISTRAL MANPADS
LIGHTWEIGHT, MAN PORTABLE VSHORAD WEAPON
Mistral MANPADS is a highly portable, easy-to-use
fire-and-forget VSHORAD system featuring a Mistral
missile launcher mounted on a tripod that can be
operated from the ground, a vehicle or a vessel.
The easy to load launcher accommodates a single,
ready-to-fire Mistral missile.
Mistral is a man-portable, fully digital, heat-seeking fire-and-forget
missile designed to meet the requirements of all branches of the
armed forces. It boasts a 96% proven success rate and higher
reliability than any other existing low-level air defence missile.
It integrates ultimate state-of-the-art technology to ensure optimum
effectiveness. This includes a full imaging seeker providing high
resistance to IR countermeasures and the ability to engage low IR
signature targets. The missile’s large 3kg warhead associated with
a laser proximity fuze combine to provide an impressive
kill probability.
Operational advantages
• Fire-and-forget allowing engagement of multiple,
simultaneous threats
• Enhanced ability to engage low IR signature targets
(eg. drones)
• Unequalled performance against the latest
countermeasures
• Easy to use, rapid reloading
• Can be operated day and night, in severe weather
and regardless of terrain conditions
• Lightweight and easily man-portable by a two-person
team (one for the firing post and one for the missiles)
• Can be integrated within a wider defence network
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Effectiveness
• High kill probability Missile characteristics
• Very high speed (930m/s) and manoeuvrability (30G) • Weight: 19.7kg
• Effectiveness guaranteed against all types of targets, including • Length: 1.86m
UAVs, high speed and highly manoeuvring fixed and rotary • Diameter: 90mm
wing aircraft • Maximum intercept range: 7.5km
• Minimum intercept range: 500m
Flexibility
• Day and night operation
• Deployable in standalone or in coordinated mode
• Qualified for use in severe weather conditions and extremes
of temperature (-40°C to +71°C)
• Easy to operate regardless of terrain conditions

Ease of operation
• Fire-and-forget engagement mode
• Simple training with indoor simulator and in-the-field
training system

Features
• Can be integrated within a fire control and coordination
system such as LICORNE

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